On 08 November 2017, the Singapore High Court issued its judgment in Re Attilan Group Ltd [2017] SGHC 283. This is the first reported judgment by a Singapore Court on the rescue finance provisions introduced pursuant to the 2017 debt restructuring amendments to the Singapore Companies Act. We discuss three key takeaways from that judgment.

The Court of Appeal has considered circumstances in which filing a notice of intention to appoint administrators did not give rise to the interim moratorium normally available under the Insolvency Act 1986 (JCAM Commercial Real Estate Property XV Limited v Davis Haulage Limited).